New solar cell: record efficiency
6th 2006f December, 2006, PeterThe US Department of Energy has announced that a new concentrator solar cell has achieved record levels of conversion efficiency: 40.7 % sunlight-to-electricity conversion performance.
“Attaining a 40 percent efficient concentrating solar cell means having another technology pathway for producing cost-effective solar electricity. Almost all of today’s solar cell modules do not concentrate sunlight but use only [...]
